{"id":1837,"date":"2014-04-28T06:42:14","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T06:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=1837"},"modified":"2014-04-28T07:00:10","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T07:00:10","slug":"can-you-judge-a-book-by-its-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2014\/04\/28\/can-you-judge-a-book-by-its-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you judge a book by its cover?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">I&#8217;ve been after a 2nd edition copy of &#8216;The Speed System of Basic Mathematics&#8217; Piper MP86 1968 for a while but every time it\u00a0appeared infrequently on eBay\u00a0someone always outbid me. I&#8217;ve now managed to get it from a seller on Amazon but I have to say it must be one of the most boring covers around and on looking at other Pipers from that time there are several\u00a0more just as dull.\u00a0My selection appears below and if there are any you want to\u00a0nominate we&#8217;ll have a poll for the worst!. The first edition of the <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a title=\"MP86\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/PAN%20Piper\/PANMP86.htm\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Trachtenberg<\/span><\/a><\/span> was not amongst my favourite covers but it was more adventurous than these.\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 25%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1837 gallery-columns-4 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2014\/04\/28\/can-you-judge-a-book-by-its-cover\/boring3\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Boring3-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1840\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1840'>\n\t\t\t\tPiper MP86\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2014\/04\/28\/can-you-judge-a-book-by-its-cover\/boring1\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Boring1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1838\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1838'>\n\t\t\t\tPiper EP120\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2014\/04\/28\/can-you-judge-a-book-by-its-cover\/boring2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Boring2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1839\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1839'>\n\t\t\t\tPiper WP128\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2014\/04\/28\/can-you-judge-a-book-by-its-cover\/boring4\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Boring4-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1841\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1841'>\n\t\t\t\tPiper EP145\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\">In the last blog I queried if the monogram that looked as if it was made up of a G, d and an A was Gino d&#8217;Achille? Having looked at his <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a title=\"Gino d'Avhille\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ginodachille.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">website<\/span><\/a><\/span> more closely I found an example picture which clearly shows it is his although he often just put GD.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Gino.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1854\" alt=\"Gino\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Gino.jpg\" width=\"304\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Gino.jpg 304w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Gino-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 304px) 100vw, 304px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been after a 2nd edition copy of &#8216;The Speed System of Basic Mathematics&#8217; Piper MP86 1968 for a while but every time it\u00a0appeared infrequently on eBay\u00a0someone always outbid me. I&#8217;ve now managed to get it from a seller on Amazon but I have to say it must be one of the most boring covers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}